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12019-02-23T17:43:56-08:00Eric Cave3fdf87be91db13fa245199f6a5a31a5629d19d1631636151Eric Cave and Jacob Catonplain8046632019-03-25T00:48:04-07:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5
Digital humanities projects and Institutional Review Board (IRB) review
Some projects in the digital humanities count as research on human subjects as defined by federal law (45 CFR 46). There are two issues here.
Does your project count as research, defined by federal law as systematic research designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge?
And If your project does count as research, as defined by federal law, does it count as research on human subjects? This might seem like an obvious matter, but it isn't. For guidance in determining whether your project counts as human subject research requiring IRB review, see the following Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) decision charts.
If your digital humanities project does count as human subject research, you will likely need to complete the relevant Citi Training for your discipline, and you will need to submit your project application to Arkansas State University's IRB via Cayuse IRB.
Contents of this path:
1media/TrolleyProblem2.jpg2019-03-23T21:13:04-07:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5Problematic 3D Representations7plain2019-03-24T23:01:48-07:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5
1media/664px-Heraion,_Delos_02.jpg2019-03-23T21:28:42-07:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5Capturing and Making Available Metadata in 3D models7plain2019-03-31T01:08:45-07:00Eric Cave3fdf87be91db13fa245199f6a5a31a5629d19d16